Philippines Manga

Alora Steppingstone spent her teenage life practicing in shooting range, boxing ring and running field. She moved to New York and trained by her uncle to be a great mafia herself to avenge once she gets back in the Philippines at 18 years old. Since her parents died in front of her, all she wants to do is to kill the family Spencer who lead the biggest assassin organization and the culprit of her family's murder case. She promise to herself that she will kill Mr. Robert Spencer including his family but when she met Calter Vin, everything has change. When Alora strives to unfold the truth about her family's death and set aside her romantic feelings, at the end of the story, the question is to whom will she shoot her final bullet.

Celine Galvez, a graduating law student and a famous man hater from the University of the Philippines, dedicated her life to fulfill her promise to give justice to her father's death. She pledged to make her family her greatest priority in everything, until she met Lorenzo, the notorious playboy and star of Ateneo Medicine, who slowly wrecked her principles in a way that she surprisingly found pleasuring. Will she be able to keep both her promise and Loren whom she learned to love, when all the hindrances are starting to surface against them? How can she forget him when he left a beating heart that reminds her of him every day? Should Celine just move on and live alone with their child, or will she risk it all to find the star that once fell for her?

You are entering an alternate world, where the Philippines didn't achieve its independence but remained a US colony. You will meet four people living in Neo Manila, where the government is repressive, prohibited drugs are legal, and crime is rampant. Undesirables are abducted and imprisoned in the Valley, which is a hidden prison island. A secret society called the Sons of Lapu-Lapu is working to undermine the government and has spies within the Valley and the governmental ranks. A young man and a woman are victims of circumstance and caught between two sides. She initially betrays him but made amends later and became lovers. The government leader (and main villain) have thought of a bold plan to use witchcraft in creating a perfect Utopian society for him and the one-percenters in the colony: the New Gods. The remaining unworthy would not be included and thus eliminated. The soul of Neo Manila and the whole colony is at stake. Will the Sons of Lapu-Lapu or the New Gods prevail in the end? Who will you pledge your allegiance to?

Jesiah Kate Saltina—once an Amania, flew in a different country to pursue her passion in arts. She came back to her motherland without knowing what awaits for her come back. There, at the art exhibit in the Philippines where she was invited, she met Ford Khrysler Chua again. It is when he offered her for a job that she realized what he told her back then might be true. "Wala ka ng babalikan kapag hiniwalayan mo ako, Kate." She tried all her best to hide her feelings: grief, pain and insecurities from him. To protect herself. To save herself. She must masked it all!

Lexia is an inspiring script writer in a TV/Network company. She suffered amnesia due to a dangerous accident year back, yet she survived. A lot of her memories are missing, including the one with her special someone. Rage is a famous international artist he came back to Philippines and decided to continue his career, even though he's already a big name internationally. Not until he met Lexia again, the women he love and still does. The reason for his everything. They meet again where Lexia's working. But due to his memory she can't remember him now. The question is — will they find each other's arm despite Lexia memory loss? Or they encounter a new conflict in their relationship again?

In the Philippines, there is a well-known and commonly practiced superstitious belief called pagpag, loosely translated as "to dust-off." One should never go home directly after visiting a wake or a funeral, because the ghost of the deceased might latch on and cause hauntings or attract evil. Now, where can Filipinos pagpag and lead spirits astray? It could be anywhere: a restaurant, a mall, that house down the street where your toxic ex lives… but usually, people opt for 7-Eleven convenience stores and nobody knows why. Follow the story of Akira Basilio: a part-time staff who mans the Luntian Street 7-Eleven on Thursday and Friday nights, which sounds completely normal; except Akira had the ability to communicate with the dead. She maintained a quiet life by keeping her sixth sense a secret from both the living and the departed, until a particularly persistent spirit flips everything into chaos when he entangles Akira in a hunt for a murderer.

The AFA 2020, or the Antonio Facundo Awards, is a competition for journalists like Avery Taylor. It is also often open to writers and directors. They will take a subject, a prevalent person with people, and publish to the public how that person lives. Avery earns the honor of being an exceptional reporter and journalist every year. She won AFA 2019 last year, and he will never relinquish her seat. She will make sure she gets the same award again this year. All she had to do is find someone, a person everyone looked up to with a mysterious identity. Cormac Carter, one of the richest bachelors in the entire Philippines and owns one of the most popular car brands globally — C.C Cars, will be Avery’s target. He’s the gem of the competition. That man already has all the ‘ingredients’ for that, and Avery will not let the opportunity slide. With that desire, she had so much to go through, but Avery never expected that by digging into his past, she would find her past that was buried into her mind for a long time ago. The incident that caused her to be hit by a car and develop amnesia, the incident that made her feel the hardship of the past fifteen years..

Lyric Chelsy Makinano, an Engineering student who transfered from UST to UP Diliman because of a deal she made with her father. Para sa kanya, naniniwala siya na dapat pinakilinggan ng mga magulang ang mga opinyon ng kanilang anak. Hindi dapat natatakot mag salita ang mga kabataan sa mga nakatatanda, lalo na kung para naman iyon sa ikabubuti. She believe that no matter who you are, or how young or old you are, we should speak for ourselves because it's our right. Meanwhile... Sebastian Anghelo Monteferrante, a Medical student who's studying in UST. His family is leaving in the states, but for some reasons, he chose to go home in the Philippines and continue his studies. He's the type of person na palagig nandyan sa tabi niyo if you need a shoulder. He's willing to do everything, kahit na medyo baduy, para sa mahal niya. Naniniwala siya na, ang mga babae, ay dapat tinuturing ng mga lalaki na parang prinsesa, na magiging reyna din ng kanilang palasyo.

Elijiah Kris Bach, a CEO of the Bach Group of Companies, owning chains of hospitals and pharmacies, manufacturing the most trusted medicines and ruling the world of pharmaceutics and the field of medicine, has always been able to let her empire stand alone until she was pestered by the board to agree for marriage of convenience and produce an heir to secure the company's future especially now that her Lolo, the last living owner of the Bachs, is not getting any younger and is suffering from heart complications. After she went home to the Philippines after for almost 12 years, unexpected events with the oddest people she met welcomed her. Everything was too overwhelming especially those hazel eyes owned by a cardiothoracic surgeon in one of her hospitals that are so familiar to her – eyes that can make her feel a mixture of euphoria and a pang of pain. "I'm confident I could heal people's hearts. Including yours," He said but could he really? Could he really heal her cold and broken heart?

Seven years ago, Allyson, a designer of clothing line, was accused of plagiarizing designs after winning a contest. As a result, her husband Travis decided to send her away from the Philippines in order to avoid causing more troubles to his company. That night, Allyson intended to inform her husband of her pregnancy, but due to Travis' decision, she lost the will to do so, especially given her perception of Travis' lack of want to raise a baby. She followed her husband's command because he was the only person who supported her after her parents death. After a few years, she was given the opportunity to return to the Philippines in order to ascertain the truth about a crime that involved one of the most significant individuals in her life. When she came home, she believed that few things had changed including her relationship with her husband.